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Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature

Documentary on water usage, money, politics, the transformation of nature, and the growth of the American west, shown on PBS as a four-part miniseries.

Documentary History

Alfre Woodard

(Narrator (voice))

Marc Reisner

(Self - Author, 'Cadillac Desert')

Catherine Mulholland

(Self - William Mullholand's Granddaughter)

Clara Rambeau

(Self - Elder, Owens Valley Paiute Tribe)

Kevin Starr

(Self - California State Librarian)

Robert Towne

(Self - Screenwriter, 'Chinatown')

Ernie Kinney

(Self - Owens Valley Resident)

Cynthia Irwin

(Self - Owens Valley Resident)

Flora Nash

(Self - Owens Valley Resident)

Howard Holland

(Self - Owens Valley Resident)

Vernon Miller

(Self - Chairman, Fort Independence Tribe)

Robert Phillips

(Self - General Manager, Chief Engineer 1972-75)

George Miller

(Self - Congressman, California)

Elma Blaver

(Self - Mono Lake Resident)

Sally Gaines

(Self - Co-Founder, Mono Lake Committee)

David Gaines

(Self - Co-Founder, Mono Lake Committee (archive footage))

Augie Hess

(Self - Mono Lake Resident)

Patricia Mulroy

(Self - Manager, Las Vegas Valley Water District)

Blaine Hamann

(Self - Manager, Hoover Dam)

Barry Goldwater

(Self - U.S. Senator, Arizona)

Floyd Dominy

(Self - Commissioner of Reclamation, 1959-1969)

Daniel Beard

(Self - Commissioner of Reclamation, 1993-1995)

David Brower

(Self - Executive Director, Sierra Club)

Tommy Nelson

(Self - Hoover Dam Construction Worker)

Ila Clements

(Self - Daughter of Hoover Dam Worker)

Ferrell Secakuku

(Self - Chairman, Hopi Tribe)

David Wegner

(Self - Manager, Glen Canyon Environmental Studies)

Katie Lee

(Self - River Runner)

Martin Litton

(Self - Sierra Club Board of Directors)

Jack Woolf

(Self - Grower)

Leland Sparks

(Self)

Martin Semper

(Self - Semper Truck Lines)

Jeff Edwards

(Self - Tulare Basin)

Kathleen Brown

(Self - California State Treasurer)

Pete Peña Jr.

(Self - Truck Driver)

Pete Peña Sr.

(Self - Farm Laborer)

Jason Peltier

(Self - Manager, CVP Water Association)

Dean MacCannell

(Self - Sociologist, University of California)

Tony Silva

(Self - Mayor of Huron, 1978)

Gary Zahm

(Self - US Fish & Wildlife Service)

John Harris

(Self - Westlands Grower)

Sandra Postel

(Self - Author, 'Last Oasis')

Harris Chan

(Self - Three Gorges Engineer)

Tiahoga Ruge

(Self - Director, CICEANA)

Hillel Shuval

(Self - Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

Amos Banin

(Self - Hebrew University, Rehovot)

Jad Isaac

(Self - Director, Applied Research Institute, Bethlehem)

Dan Luecke

(Self - Environmental Defense Fund)

Charles Wilkinson

(Self - Professor of Law, University of Colorado)

Ken Strom

(Self - National Audubon Society)

Chips Barry

(Self - Director, Denver Water Department)

Steven Flanders

(Self - City Ice Company)

Glenn France

(Self - Casa Del Agua, Tucson, AZ)

Elsa Lopez

(Self - Metropolitan Water District)

Martha Davis

(Self - Exec. Director, Mono Lake Committee)

Alejandro Robles

(Self - Conservation International)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

(Self (archive footage))

John F. Kennedy

(Self (archive footage))

Jimmy Carter

(Self (archive footage))

Bill Clinton

(Self (archive footage))

George H. W. Bush

(Self (archive footage))